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Littleguru wrote:- Why isn't it possible to force the GC to do a collect. I mean GC.Collect() just signalizes that a collect is required, but the GC could decide to do not. Why has this been implemented in that way?

If this is indeed true, can't we have a GC.Collect(bool meanIt); ?

Probably because the GC knows more about current memory than the developer does 99% of the time. Forcing a GC when there are only a few dozen objects that need cleaning up is a bad idea. GC collection is a high overhead operation and calling it arbitrarily
is bad practice nearly all of the time.